Head of AML

Roles and responsibilities:

• Report to Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) and assist (s)he to ensure the implementation of applicable policies, systems and controls related to FCC, including but not limited to, anti-money laundering (AML)/counter-terrorist financing (CTF), economic sanction, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) to comply with applicable local regulatory obligations and requirements;
• Keep abreast of legal and regulatory developments on the abovementioned FCC related areas and act as thecentral reference point / subject matter expert in the Bank to advise and clarify issues arisen from contentsand developments in local laws, regulations or market practices, plus facilitate the stakeholders such as product and operation/support teams to implement and comply with necessary changes/requirements internally;
• Provide advisory supports (including AML/CDD, sanctions and ABC) on new products, services and customer segment, promotion materials and FCC related training;
• Participant and support the Head of FCC on internal and external projects (regular or ad hoc based) including but not limited to examinations/audits by regulators or internal/independent assessor, new products/servicesassessment and review, enterprise-wide ML/TF risk assessment, compliance testing, staff training and etc;
• Support and handle the specific and ad hoc assignments as assigned by Head of FCC or MLRO.
• Minimum 8 - 10 years relevant advisory experience of FCC or AML/CTF acquired from international / regional banks or financial service regulators;
• Strong knowledge on AML / CFT regulatory requirements, with good understanding on sanctions, ABC and risk control mindset;
• Good understanding on consumer and corporate banking products, services and transactions, keen on providing customer experience in new fashion and challenging the status quo;
• Ability to cope with highly demanding and fast paced banking environment and competent to work in cross culture organization, embrace with innovation and excitements from digital banking;
• Good command on spoken and written skills in English, Chinese and Putonghua;
• Certified as AAMLP/CAMLP or equivalent AML certification/license. Where also acquired with other relevant certification such as CFE, cybersecurity or risk management is a plus.